Peculiar day, yesterday. Two events that had the semblance of being meaningful; they were close enough to events that would have been profoundly meaningful that some sense of that event actually occurred, although within the negation.
Experience is that which we should be grateful for, which is to say, our encounter with the world is always looking over the world's shoulder a bit, and being grateful to that other, larger thing that we can just barely make out within the totality of things. An animal, or a human living a rote life, when encountering the world, does so within a frame of reference without residue--the encounter with things is a zero sum game. But as you begin to sense, as a human, the limits of human intuition, the encounter with the world starts to look past the world, and with wisdom, this looking-past begins to be characterized by gratitude.
Christ, in the desert, was perhaps shown the events of the subsequent three years, and invited to take the fruits of this experience without actually encountering the time. Traditionally, we call this the work of the devil. (Presumably, he characterized it this way when recounting the story to his students.)
But, reason why such a thing would be ascribed to the evil forces. It is not necessarily authenticity, since everything has its own authenticity. It is not merely avoiding anything characterized by the evil ones, because that just poses the question again of why it should be so, and we are trying to make the connections between things more clear. Perhaps the answer as to why the fruits of experience, these things that the temporal mind thinks to be the aim of it all, don't accomplish the work of teaching us that we are within a larger picture than we can fathom, and the gratitude that quite possibly follows from living with that belief awhile. It would have separated him from the Father.